Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-04-15

gether, and then kneeldown. and; comment
your souls to him who has watched You all
these years.; and, before YOU rise, there
will be a Tutoring Of wings over your
head, angel crying to angel: "Behold, they
pray"
But this does not include all your family.
Bring the children too. God bless the
deaf children! What would our homes be
without them? We may have done much
for them. They have done more for us.
What n salve for a wounded heart there is
in he's soft palm of q chiid's hand! Did
harp or flute ever have such music as there
coarse, rough life the angels of God are
often driven back; but who comes into the
nursery without feeling that angels arc
lowering around? They who die in infancy
go into glory, but you are expecting your
children to grow up in this world. Is it
not a question then that rings through afl
tho corridors, and winnings, and heights
and depths of your soul, what is to become
Of your sons and daughters for time and
for eternity? "oh!" you say. Il mean to
see that they have good manners" Very
we'll. II mean to dress them we'll, if 1
have myself to go shabby" Very good.
VI shall give them an education and l shall
leave them a fortune" Very we'll. Butts
that all? Don't you mean to take them
into the ark? Don't you know that the
storm is coming. n that ont of Christ
there is no safety, no pardon, no hope,
ne Heaven?
How to get them in? Go in yourself. Il
Soa ao had s stayed ont %s do you g"a not 4 ts1ppos st thu.
have stayed. out? Your sons and daugh-
ters would be apt to do Just as you do.
Reject Christ yourself, and the probabili-
ties is that your children will reject Him.
An account was taken Of the religious
condition of families in n certain district.
In the families of pious parents two-thirds
of the children were Christians. In tho
families where the parents were ungodly,
o~ne-twelfth of the children were Chris
tians. Responsible as you are for their
temporal existence, you are also RESPONSE
BILE for their eternity. Which way will you
take them? Out into the deiuge, or into
the ark? Have you ever made one earnest
prayer for their immortal souls? What
will You say in the judgment, when God asks:
Where is George, or Henry, or Frank, or
Mary, or Ann? Where are those precious
souls whose Interests l committed into
your hands?"
A dying son said to his father: Father,
You gave me an education, and good man.
do for me; but. father, you never told me
how to die, and now my soul is going out
in the darkness"
Go home and erect u family altar. You
may break down in your prayer. But
never mind, God will take what you mean,
whether you express it i%ntelligibly OF not.
Bring all your house into the ark. Isthere
one son whom you have given up? Is he
SO dissipated that you have stopped coun-
selling and praying? Give him up7 How
dare you give him up? Did God ever give
fboo pp2 Whilst tbou hast n cipolo or4iou-
lation of speech left cease not to pray for
the return of that prodignl. He may even
now be standing on the beach ut Hong
Kong or Madras, meditating o return to his
fathers house. Give him up2 Mover give
him up. Has God promised to hear thy
prayer only 10 mock thee? It is not too
late.
In st. Paul's, London, there is a whis-
pering gallery. A voice uttered most
feebly at one side OF the gallery is heard
distinctly at the opposite side. q great
prayer goes all. around the earth and
makes Heaven q whispering gallery. Go
into the ark-not to sit down, but to stand
i'll the door and call until I'LL The family
, comes in. Aged Noah, where is Japhet?
David, where is Absalom? Hannah, where
is Samuel? Bring them in through
Christ, the door. Would it not be pleas
. ant TO Spend eternity WIN our 1amllleS'
Gladder than Christmas or Thanksgiving
/, festival will be the reunion if we get all
our family into the ark. Which Of them
can we spare out of Heaven?
On one of the late steamers there were
a father and two daughters journeying,
They seemed extremely poor. A beneyo.
lent gentleman stepped up to the poor mar
to proffer some f. Of relief, and said,
! "You seem to be very poor, sir" @Poor.
: sir, replied the man, "if there's a poore,
man than me %otroubling this world, Goo
pity both of us!" II will take one Of you,
children and adopt it ifyou say SO. Think
it would be q great relief to YOU" "a
what?" said the poor man. "a relief. +"
! would it be a relief to have the hands
chopped off from the body or the heart
torn from the breast? A relief, indeed;
God be good to us! What do you mean,
sir?"
However many children we may have, we
have none to give up. Which of our fam
lilies can We afford 10 spare out of Heaven?
Come, father! Come, mother! Come, son!
Come, daughter! Come, brother2 Come,
sister! Only one step, and we are in
Christ. the door swings out to admit us;
and it is not the h~oarseness of a stormy
blast that your hear, but the voice of Q low
ing and patient God that addresses you,
saying: "Come thou and all thy house
into the ark"
And there may the Lord shut us in.